Actually, not so triumphant, since what I cooked wasn't very good. It was from one of the new year "Lite" food recipe mags, and it looked so promising--chicken sausage, pasta and broccoli rabe. I have never cooked broccoli rabe in house, only eaten it out, and though I liked it, I know it has a reputation for bitterness. Which supposedly you can cook out of it. Except I didn't cook the bitterness out of it, which is why it tasted ucky and bitter. I choked down as much as I could, being that it was a major component of the meal, but ewwww.
And I know that light cooking is hard, because you have to find flavor from other places, but the combination of white wine vinegar and garlic and a teensy weensy bit of olive oil does not a tasty sauce make. I feel like a garlic bomb. A very unsatisfied garlic bomb. The chicken sausage I bought was totally tasty though, so that's not a total loss. They're the precooked style sausage, and they're specifically Italian style. I think I could saute one up and add it to pasta and basic tomato sauce for a healthy, filling meal. I have two left, too, so maybe I can even just make a meal of one of those on a bun.
Sigh.
My kitchen is a disaster-area, and I know I need to go clean it, but I'm really dreading it. Ah well, I'll never be cleaning up this craptastic meal ever again.
(Upcoming: More recipes! I'm cooking a beef roast--and no, I'm not kidding--in the oven with veggies on either Sat. or Sun. depending on how motivated I feel. It's from the same magazine that this recipe came from, but being that it's basically a roast on a cookie sheet with potatoes, onions, green peppers, olive oil and some salt, pepper and thyme. I can't see how that could be bad. I've never done a roast in the oven, and am slightly worried about making sure it's cooked to our liking. Any hints?)
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